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The Book of Henry
A man abuses his stepdaughter, and as soon as her next door neighbor and school mate (Henry) realizes, he maps out a plan in his jotter to save Christina.
30 May 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1970, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
10 October 1975, Tehran, Iran
8 April 1963, South Bend, Indiana, USA
25 August 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
July 21, 2017
With a plot far too dark for kids, and an approach that's often too mild to satisfy adults, the result is a film as uneven as the Rocky Mountain foothills.
June 29, 2017
"Sometimes a good story will remind you of who you want to be," says Henry. Someone watching a different movie?
June 16, 2017
Even in this mess of conflicting ideas, you still get a sense of the childlike wonder that drives Treverrow to tell stories. It's a rare gift, and something to help him survive calamitous setbacks like this one.
June 27, 2017
A nervy, willfully preposterous study of motherhood and loss, "The Book of Henry" recklessly shifts between tones and genres, never predictably but rarely satisfyingly.
August 09, 2017
The Book of Henry might be brimming with talent, but in the end it's probably better left unread.
June 28, 2017
The film's mashing of whimsy and skin-crawling terror is grating and seem to cynically milk tragedy for entertainment.
June 18, 2017
I was swept up in the emotional realism of it all with nothing but grounded performances from the whole cast.
June 30, 2017
The Book of Henry had promising elements within its opening act that were quickly dismantled once that event occurred. The film then free falls into a genre-bending mess where it does not know what film it wants to become.
June 16, 2017
Every book needs an editor.
June 16, 2017
However hard the talented cast may try, those aren't people up on the screen; they're candles, balloons, and marbles.
June 22, 2017
This shift in genre is an ambitious gamble, and I don't think it plays out successfully.
June 16, 2017
The whole thing is boring and phony, with just a couple of lines of dialogue that feel sharp.